Our Lady Of Lourdes Podcast

Readings for the Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time Resources referenced in today's homily: "'Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?' He said to him, 'You shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.'" (Matthew 22:36-37) "Love for God cannot be taught. No one taught us to enjoy the light nor to want life, nor anyone else taught us to love our parents or those who raised us. Similarly or rather much more, knowledge of divine love does not come from outside. But in the same time when man was composed, a seminal reason was deposited in us, which has by itself the causes of appropriating love.... Only the good is properly beautiful and lovable. God is good. Everything loves good, therefore, everything loves God." -St. Basil "At the hem at the bottom you shall make pomegranates, woven of violet, purple, and scarlet yarn and fine linen twined, with gold bells between them." (Exodus 28:33-34) "If we draw away from love, the command to love in which al